websites with wwww.example.com URL format?

[abirami]

Hi,

I came across a website with the below url format

wwww.example.com

and also the inner pages with the same format. And after finding this, I did a Google search with allinurl:wwww. and I found many websites with that format. What does wwww. mean?

[AnkitMaheshwari]

I have also seen such domains, however don't know much except that the full form is "World Wide Web Worm"

[Noton]

While WWWW was done in the early days to spam search engines, as you could create many sites with one main domain and inner link them all and often have the ranking #1, 2, 3, and so on.

Basically the logic behind this was users often didn't notice the extra W and would bring in more traffic, other things like using wvvw.example.com where common.

Now some of the WWWW will be left over spam, other are due to servers being setup incorrectly and allowing any sub-domain to resolve the website content and yes users and links sometimes end up going to wwww.example.com a quick search for wwww.google.com brought back 12,900 results.

The other reason could simply be the website wanted to use WWWW as a sub-domain, or a they offer members sub-domains matching their ID's and someone user name is WWWW.